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I'm Dan Ackerman we're here taking a look at the Dell Latitude 10 that is an Intel Atom full Windows 8 touchscreen tablet from Dell it actually looks and feels a lot like pretty much every other Windows 8 touchscreen tablet that we've seen some of them have Intel Core i5 CPUs like the Microsoft Surface pro other ones like this one are atom powered the big difference between those two even though they kind of look the same at first glance is that the animal ones are gonna be lighter they're gonna be a little bit thinner of course they're not gonna be as powerful they do have really good battery life however and of course the core i5 versions are going to be more expensive the surface pro starts at 899 you really want the $9.99 version of that meanwhile the line of 210 and a lot of the other atom tablets start around $4.99 for really stripped-down version this pretty mainstream configuration is 649 you can also add for $100 something like a docking station this custom docking station for this which adds a video out and an Ethernet in Jack and some additional USB ports because on the body of the tablet itself you've only got one USB 2.0 port in fact all of them are USB 2 that's one of the downfalls of using this Atom platform instead of the more advanced Intel Core I through its platform where USB 3.0 is required now of course you've got a touchscreen that despite the fact that this is an Atom processor still feels very responsive Windows 8 was really designed to take advantage of the core I series and the atom and give you a pretty decent performance in the Microsoft optimized apps in any case if you use some third-party apps you may not have an experience that's as good I took a look at Internet Explorer 10 when you scroll through a web page with that it's very nice very smooth if you load up the same web page in Chrome it's actually very stuttery a lot more like what you would think an atom would feel like based on our experience with netbooks now if you're using this for everyday tasks and all you're doing is sending some emails surfing the web maybe doing one thing at a time you could probably get away with the atom and and take advantage of the lower cost associated with one of these tablets if you're a big multitask or gonna use this as your all-day everyday computer by let's say hooking it up to a monitor and a keyboard and a mouse then you may want to seriously consider upgrading to something with a core i5 CPU that really won't be that much more expensive when you consider that the performance on the systems is just so so so much faster I'm Dan Ackman and that is the Dell Latitude 10